Stefaan Decostere. 1994. Belgium. 21’
This scintillating videowork depicts a new kind of travel in which time (and history) is subsumed within a deja vu future, a future of recycled nostalgia. The hybrid nature of Tokyo society, its tendency to replicate other cultural models, has made tourism an almost de facto status of citizenry. Fuelled by ubiquitous media, the hyper-presence of recombinant culture intermingles with much of Tokyo experience. Deja Vu simulates this sense of a processed society through an intensely paced play of images. Decostere uses Tokyo to predict a foreseeable future when global culture will be a theme park of consumption and rootlessness.
